Connecticut western news., 1887-11-09
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

One hundred and thirty men are en- ployed in the marble quarry at Lee.
 w. H. Gross of Lee has been offered Sl 900 for his trotter ''Lady Sealskin''.
 The corner stone of the St Marks parish house at Adams was laid last week.
 During the month of October 83 arrests were made by the police in North Adams.
 The Williams college ball club are being trained by professional from Philadelphia.
 Machinery is being put in the Pitts field jail to heat the building and to do the cooking by steam.
 St Joseph's fair at Pittsfield will open on the 18th, and the prospects are that it will be great success.
 There zero 229 applications for regis tration made to the Pittsfeld board of registrars during their session.
 The annual meeting of the Hoosac Valley agricultural society will be held at North Adams November 15.
 A branch of the young woman's christian temperance union has been formed in North Adams.
 The 5Oth anniversary of the marriage of Mrand Mrs Ozias Olds of Housatonic, was celebrated last week. x
 Marine clock have been placed by the Fitchburg railroad company in all the offices on the Hoosac Tunnel route.
 The Kellogg house property at Williamstown has been purchased by Col. A. D. Bullock, of Cincinnati, o.
 During the spring and summer 1924 boquets have been made and distributed by the flowor mission in Pittsfeld. The sum of $5, ,OOO will be expended to purchase additions for the art gallery in the athenaeums at Pittsfeld.
 The affairs of the Hurlbut paper company, of Lee, will come before the insolvency court for settlement to-day.
 MT Samuel w. Bowerman, lawyer and prominent citizen of Pittsfeld, died at his residence in that place last week.
 The capacity for manufacturing manila paper at the Glendale mill has been incraased from 4 tons to 5 tons per day.
 MT John McKim, young phrenolo- gist student, is com pletine arrange ments for featuring tour through Berkshire.
 News office at North Adams was flooded by the bursting of a sewer Thursday morning.
 A $2OOO policy on the life of the late John Mabbett of North Adams, has been paid by the Berkshire life in surance company. .a
 The work of decorating the interior of St. Joseph's church, Pittsfeld, is completed and the edifice was used or Sunday.
 The employees of the Braytonville woolen company of North Adams enjoy ed hop in the new finishing room Thursday evening. Miss Ida Clothier, superintendent O. temperance work among young wome1 in Massachusetts, has been requested by Miss Frances Willard to become Qat1Onal WOfker. Frank Haskins. proprietor of a hote in Adams was assaulted by Cornelins Keefe, Friday evening and badly in . jured. Haskins had been & witness against Keefe on case before th' superior court.
 The entertainment given by Mis- Kitty Taft and her Sunday schoo pupils at Clayton Friday evening, wa greatly enjoyed by all in attendance , the programme was pleasing one anc r the selections were rendered in grace ) ful manner.
 Earl Grey, son of Edgar J. Combs, o Circular avenue, was visited by a sur prise party last Friday evening, quite ,, houseful of young friends being present | With refreshments and amusements thu evening was most happily spent an' ; the party was one of the brightest littl . social successes of the season. Pitts i field Sun.